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MIGuy

(36 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:49 AM Jan 17

Please, watch more TV

We all need to turn the TV dial to Free Speech TV or MSNBC. As often and as much as possible. Get friends and family to turn in, too. If the ratings go up for good television, corporate interests will notice and serve the need.

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Please, watch more TV (Original Post) MIGuy Jan 17 OP

I sometimes turn on the channel on low and just let it go in the background, never hearing a thing. lark Jan 17 #1

Will they? I expect corporate interests will just take them down. travelingthrulife Jan 17 #2

Yeah, unfortunately there's more than one way to make the chosen ratings go up. Hugin Jan 17 #5

No thank you. We've not watched in 15 years and don't NewHendoLib Jan 17 #3

Alternatively MIGuy Jan 24 #10

I listen to WNCW, very progressive, music with NPR. I get my news from perusing DU and Guardian NewHendoLib Jan 24 #11

I watched MSNBC for years, turns out all the legal and political analysts doc03 Jan 17 #4

I subscribe to Freespeech TV Zorro Jan 17 #6

I've cut the cord.... Happy Hoosier Jan 17 #7

Oh, hell no... hunter Jan 17 #8

TV frames the public discourse and your mind. usonian Jan 17 #9

lark

(24,862 posts)

1. I sometimes turn on the channel on low and just let it go in the background, never hearing a thing.

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:09 AM

Jan 17

travelingthrulife

(2,010 posts)

2. Will they? I expect corporate interests will just take them down.

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:19 AM

Jan 17

Turn it all off.

Hugin

(36,028 posts)

5. Yeah, unfortunately there's more than one way to make the chosen ratings go up.

Reply to travelingthrulife (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:03 AM

Jan 17

Dump anything and/or anyone that goes against the desired narrative.

It’s a colossal race to the bottom.

NewHendoLib

(61,070 posts)

3. No thank you. We've not watched in 15 years and don't

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:21 AM

Jan 17

plan to start now.

MIGuy

(36 posts)

10. Alternatively

Reply to NewHendoLib (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 24, 2025, 10:23 AM

Jan 24

Any chance there is a liberal leaning radio station in your area?

NewHendoLib

(61,070 posts)

11. I listen to WNCW, very progressive, music with NPR. I get my news from perusing DU and Guardian

Reply to MIGuy (Reply #10)

Fri Jan 24, 2025, 10:58 AM

Jan 24

Our TV is on only for movies and series. At night.

doc03

(37,675 posts)

4. I watched MSNBC for years, turns out all the legal and political analysts

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:55 AM

Jan 17

don't know shit from Shine-ola. I haven't watched any MSNBC since the election other than a little
bit of the Carter funeral.

Zorro

(17,170 posts)

6. I subscribe to Freespeech TV

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:07 AM

Jan 17

I watch Stephanie Miller in the morning for the righteous outrage and fart jokes, and Thom Hartmann for the more serious discussions and fart jokes.

Happy Hoosier

(8,870 posts)

7. I've cut the cord....

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:08 AM

Jan 17

.... and a lot of the traditional cable channels have not made any kind of (legal) transition to streaming individually.

hunter

(39,446 posts)

8. Oh, hell no...

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:29 AM

Jan 17

I'm much happier and more politically active without television.

If I'm not watching television I can concentrate on those political issues I can actually do something about.

Watching television is a passive activity. Screaming at the television accomplishes nothing.

Television created Trump, television must die.

usonian

(16,989 posts)

9. TV frames the public discourse and your mind.

Reply to MIGuy (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:50 AM

Jan 17

You don't own it.
It owns you.

And every recent model spies on you and reports back,

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